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Influential Women
Science and Health Audiobooks and eBooks
The Woman Who Smashed Codes Jason Fagone
Biography The incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. AB CD 11 Discs 11795678 $44.99 AB Playaway 11947038 $67.99 AB Flex Perpetual 12479797 $69.98 eB Flex Metered 26 Circs 12483760 $19.54
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly
NY Times Bestseller
Nonfiction The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. AB CD 9 Discs 11696971 $39.99 AB Flex Perpetual 12536355 $67.48 eB Flex Metered 26 Circs 12488013 $20.69 “Starred Review.” -Booklist
The Book of Hope Jane Goodall, Doug Abrams
Nonfiction Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thoughtprovoking dialogue one of the most sought-after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. AB CD 6 Discs
13900701 $29.99 AB Playaway 14581316 $59.99 AB Flex Perpetual 13899161 $39.99 eB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 13997498 $60.00
Kate Moore
The Radium Girls
Nonfiction The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the ‘wonder’ substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. AB CD 13 Discs 14643699 $34.99 AB Playaway 11909746 $71.99 AB Flex Perpetual 14154971 $34.99 eB Flex Perpetual 13723633 $19.99 “Starred Review.” -Booklist
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
Biography A dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of Elizabeth Packard, a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today. AB CD 12 Discs 14232692 $49.99 AB Playaway 14357748 $63.99 AB Flex Perpetual 14051408 $69.95 eB Flex Perpetual 14233981 $22.99
Providing Healing, Promoting Hope
A tribute to frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic as well as female doctors who have paved the way. Women in White Coats Olivia Campbell
Nonfiction For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors. AB CD 9 Discs 13418921 $39.99 AB Flex Perpetual 13379850 $69.50 eB Flex Metered 26 Circs 13318095 $24.14 “...a valuable chapter to the history of women and medicine.” -Publishers Weekly The Doctors Blackwell Janice P. Nimura
Biography Explore how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women and women to medicine.
AB CD 9 Discs 14643698 $24.99 AB Flex Perpetual 14629757 $24.99
What Doctors Feel
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine Danielle Ofri
Nonfiction
AB CD 6 Discs 14116530 $34.99 AB Flex Perpetual 14017916 $45.00 AB Flex Metered 12 Mo. 14146036 $22.50 eB Flex Perpetual 12777308 $25.98
In the Land of Invisible Women Dr. Qanta Ahmed, MD
Nonfiction
Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert
NY Times Bestseller
Nonfiction
- Library Journal
AB CD 4 Discs 12038781 $19.99 AB Flex Perpetual 12732286 $47.50 AB Flex Metered 12 Mo. 14143767 $23.75 eB Flex Metered 12 Mo. 14179018 $27.50 eB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 12718071 $55.00
The Woman Code Sophia A. Nelson
Nonfiction
AB CD 7 Discs 11334963 $14.99 eB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 13701746 $59.99
Self-Care for Black Women Oludara Adeeyo
Nonfiction
Available January 11
AB CD 3 Discs 14529746 $29.99 AB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 14546600 $59.99 eB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 14105086 $59.99
On Purpose Tanya Dalton
Nonfiction
AB CD 6 Discs 14347800 $36.99 AB Flex Perpetual 14106907 $48.99 eB Flex Metered 26 Circs 14658232 $26.99
Grit Angela Duckworth
NY Times Bestseller
Nonfiction
AB CD 8 Discs
11382481 $29.99 AB Playaway 11617705 $55.99 AB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 12616020 $59.99 eB Flex Metered 24 Mo. 12640053 $59.99
The ‘Bad’ Girl’s Guide to Better Casey Beros
Nonfiction
Available December 7
AB CD 8 Discs 14441738 $39.99
Around America to Win the Vote Mara Rockliff
Two brave suffragists embark on a ten-thousand-mile trek across America with a teeny typewriter, a wee black kitten, and a goal to spread the word: Votes by Women!
How Women Won the Vote Susan Campbell Bartoletti
From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti comes the page-turning and tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women’s March of 1913.
Women’s Fight for Access to the Ballot Box Coral Celeste Frazer
Learn all about the seventy-year-long fight for women’s suffrage and the women who fought it in this guide about one of the most influential movements in US history.
Susan B. Anthony Teri Kanefield
The biography of one of the most notable figures in American history discusses the woman who fought tirelessly to ensure that other women had the right to vote.
